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Biodiversity turnover controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change.

Abstract

Paleontological and evolutionary studies indicate that the evolutionary history of taxa is important for predicting their fate when facing climate-related stresses. However, neither of these approaches cover the direction of temperature changes through time and their interactions. We show that taxa are particularly sensitive to same-directional temperature change over geologic time scales. Short-term temperature change adding to a long-term trend in the same direction (cooling-cooling, warming-warming) significantly increases extinction and origination probability for the majority of the studied clades.

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Gregor Mathes
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My research interests include conservation palaeontology, analytical macroecology, and data science